Net cash flow measures the amount of cash
remaining after all cash expense obligations are
satisfied. This cash is available for additional
farm investment, off-farm investment, family
living, and additional debt ...

Five treatments were developed to compare
a new synchronized ovulation protocol,
which programs follicular development with
the regression of the corpus luteum, and
traditional prostaglandin protocols that only
control ...

Ten samples of vanilla frozen yogurt were
purchased in Kansas and compared to a highprotein,
KSU formulation. The KSU
formulation had similar solids, fat, and sugar
contents as the commercial samples. All
commercial ...

Dairy cow herd enterprise records from
Kansas Farm Management Association farms
over the past 4 years have shown an increase in
returns to labor and management from $252 to
$355 per cow. Returns for higher milkproducing
cows ...

As new technologies such as rbST become
available to dairy producers, evaluating the
profitability of those technologies on individual
farms is essential. Costs associated with rbST
include purchase of product, feed, and ...

Results at Kansas State University from
over 200 laboratory-scale trials and 28 farmscale
trials showed that bacterial inoculants
consistently improved preservation efficiency
and nutritive value of the ensiled material. ...

Twenty-four Holstein cows were used to
study the effect of dietary fat on milk production
and metabolic traits. Whole cottonseed
and tallow were used as fat sources and
substituted into the control diet on an ...

Despite the negative effects of milk production
on some reproductive traits, calving
intervals between high- and low-producing
groups varied by only 9 days (414 vs 423).
First-service conception rates were 8 percentage
points ...

Reduced milk prices and greater feed costs
dictate that dairy farmers carefully manage
their nutrition program in order to maintain
profitable milk production. Reducing feed cost
by feeding less will result in lower ...

The first 305-2×-ME lactation record (after
45 days in milk) projected by the DHI program
in 28 cows was not different from their first
projected lactation record in a previous lactation
in which recombinant bovine ...